Example sentences of "he [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | England vice-captain Alec Stewart acknowledges the applause for his 148 , he second century in successive Tests |
| 2 | Since the total number of crossings , 5 is odd , unc has the determinant -1 ; accordingly unc unc unc Coincidentally , this example also illustrates he second variant : it is adventitious that the largest element among those available occurs in the first , second , third and fourth column in succession . |
| 3 | He first published a short history at the beginning of the century , but the passage quoted comes from the enlarged edition of 1923 . |
| 4 | It was in Berlin that he first read Morelli 's work . |
| 5 | It was in 1761 , that he first wrote an account of one of the Salons , which was circulated with his other correspondence in the fashion of the time by his friend Grimm . |
| 6 | When he first reached the blissful shore of the redhead 's body , a peculiar idea occurred to him : he now knew at last what it meant to be absolutely modern ; it meant to lie on the shore of the redhead 's body . |
| 7 | When he first came to Chilton , Harry Dodson recalls that the pest controller in the glasshouses was a large old toad . |
| 8 | Leonard was actually looking in a shop window when he first saw them , noticing Marianne — naturally — first ! |
| 9 | He first described this in Noctambules which showed how the characters portrayed were manipulated by the Hypnotist . |
| 10 | Raskolnikov turns to Sonya ; ‘ it was to her , Sonya , that he first went with his confession ; when he felt the need of a human being , he sought the human being in her ’ — which does indeed isolate for a moment , and emphasize , the mystic business of his alienation from the human family ; and for this moment the dross ( as it were ) of Sonya and of Raskolnikov is withheld ; the god in his humanity is looking for the god in hers . |
| 11 | A toneless , disjunctive fact , droll and very uneasy , one of those amputated thoughts I have just mentioned and –so a sensation , a crawling sensation of the time being out of joint ; there is more Hamlet to The Possessed than what is personal to Stavrogin , ‘ the Prince ’ as he first appears , though on the surface of his mind Dostoevsky evidently meant Prince Hal , not the Prince of Denmark . |
| 12 | I have argued elsewhere that Pound was prepared to take instruction , as well as to give it ; that when he first came to London in 1908 , he was looking for masters to whom he might apprentice himself ; that he found them in the Irishman W.B. Yeats and the maverick Englishman Ford Madox Ford ( whose professionalism about writing still denies him in England the recognition that he gets abroad ) ; and ( so I have speculated , though I know it can not be proved ) that Pound sought the same relationship with another Englishman , Laurence Binyon , who was too cagey to go along with the idea . |
| 13 | On the contrary , as I have insisted , one indelibly American thing about Pound from the day when he first reached London was his , as it must seem to us , excessive faith in know-how , in a communicable ‘ bag of tricks ’ . |
| 14 | In Four Saints Thomson 's informality was given free reign since he first of all improvised the music at the piano then , when it stuck , wrote it down to a figured bass . |
| 15 | He anticipated some of the enthusiasms of John Cage , whom he first met in 1941 . |
| 16 | How had he first got into body building ? |
| 17 | ‘ Franzi ’ was born in London in 1913 , but was brought up from 1919 onwards in Munich , where he first experimented with photography . |
| 18 | Misty-eyed when he first appeared he looked practically fog-bound during the closing numbers . |
| 19 | ' He told the Conservative Party that it would be an unpopular tax when he first opposed the idea — successfully — as Secretary of State for the Environment in the early Eighties . |
| 20 | Mr Ozberk , who has been refused leave for a judicial review , is left with no right of appeal — unless he first returns to Turkey , where his wife and three children live . |
| 21 | He first dropped the man off and then drove to the allotment . |
| 22 | He first spoke on the French invasion of the Ruhr . |
| 23 | This was around the time he first started seeing me as more than just an employee . |
| 24 | When he first started selling peg trousers he developed a stance to show them off He 'd bend his legs at the knee and stand half turned . |
| 25 | He first ventured into retailing in 1964 because he was so disenchanted with the way his furniture was being displayed in the shops to which he supplied . |
| 26 | He first decided to go into manufacturing because when he finished his design training in the early 1980s there were few jobs available simply because in those days industry , by and large , saw no call for designers . |
| 27 | He first began to think about the repercussions of such hard commercial decisions in 1971 , and by the time that he 65 became chairman of British Steel upon the untimely death of Lord Melchett he had formulated a way to ease the hardship . |
| 28 | Laing has striven hard over the years to implement the enlightened human relations policies he first learned from his grandfather . |
| 29 | Someone once asked Sir Austin Pearce when he first decided to become chairman of Esso . |
| 30 | When he first came , he had worked on various building sites . |